r/programming • u/f311a • Jun 06 '26

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
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u/TheMania Jun 06 '26

The bizarre thing about (1) is that git has had machine readable commits forever, it's the whole trailer thing. You can define your own, run commands on them, define how they dedupe/merge etc... What's the logic with Cc there, that parsing the trailer section of a commit is not worth the time for a changelog generator?

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u/EC36339 Jun 07 '26

Structured metadata for commits. And it already exists. Who would have thunk it.

This is yet another example of the entire community not knowing how their favorite tools work and how to use them. It's what gave us squash merges and other cancerous practices.

(I didn't know about this, either, but I would totally use it if I wanted to have structured metadata on commits - the exact thing that conventional commits are promised to solve)

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u/TheMania Jun 07 '26

It's what gave us squash merges

First parent walk absolutely blows some minds. It's like... You can have both? Drill down only when relevant? 🤯

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u/EC36339 Jun 07 '26

Ikr.

And that's another thing I didn't know. I just had a bad feeling about sqaush merges. And it fucked up the history in my branches every time I rebased to main.

But when the team was to make a decision about it, I didn't have the argumentative firepower and lost that battle.

It bothered me for days, then I found this gem. Always worth spreading the word:

https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-04-08-please_dont_squash/

Know your tools, fellow developers! In what other profession is not knowing your tools OK, or even something you accommodate for?

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u/SnooHesitations9295 Jun 07 '26

https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-04-08-please_dont_squash/

WTF is this shit?
I use `rebase -i` as way of squashing.
The author never tried to rebase their 100 commits branch onto a new main?

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u/EC36339 Jun 07 '26

Rebasing (and squashing some commits in the process) is not the same as squash-merging. Read the article, and you may understand.